The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 14 November 1938

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press AND DAILY NEWS NO. 15.625. ESTI). 1835. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1938. 5 CENTS
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    Topics No Place Fa Duds" From Home
    93 1 j| v!M Ouv Own Correspondent) London, Nov. 8. dion thai "tropical neurasthenia often is .selective tendency at work, by which vainly seek a new environment for mal-adjusted personalities" is made in the anv nf the London School of Hygiene and licina. "The problem
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    'Anti-Jew Drive Not Revenge, But Necessity"
    980 1 'Anti- Jew Drive Not Revenge, But Necessity" DR. GOEBBELS SPEAKS Berlin, Nov. 13. WHILE the very means of earning their bread are being: taken away from Jews in Germany by the latest Nazi anti-Semitic decrees, the Minister for Propaganda, Br. Coebbels, says his Government does not want to destroy Jewish
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    ITALIAN HOTELS GO ITALIAN
    90 1 ITALIAN HOTELS GO ITALIAN Rome. N<»v. l;l. i naes of c«»mpletenev Hotel print, .shortly I ll -d at Al- Majestic will Albergo M ec. The Grande ■pud I Ambassadora-Pa- >ergo Aninasme B.'llu to be transberg .di R Royal. De i Vi'.le. Metrolines of other •ed respeeS ia. Inghilterre, Qd Vittoria.
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    GENERAL ELECTION IN SIAM
    37 1 Our Own ,ndent i Bangkok. Nov. 13. piV-- or a new Assemitives is prottngdora to- &o tai have been ot a S* k J? atu s^ral days will L ore the results are
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    Mexico Climbs Down, Pays United States
    276 1 Mexico City, Nov. 13. PAYMENT by means of an indemnity, estimated at $10,000,000 in respect ot American-owned small farm properties expropriated under Mexico'.s locai agrarian programme, finally has beoj arranged by the exchange of Notes. The value of the properties taker, will be established
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    FRANCE ADOPTS PLAN FOR RECOVERY
    488 1 M. Reynaud's 3-Year Scheme Accepted WORKERS MUST HELP Paris, Nov. 13. AFTER SITTING ail day the Cabinet approved the new recovery plans of the Minister for Finance, M. Paul Reynaud. M. Reynaud, in a broadcast, said the decrees just signed were aimed solely at recreating
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    France's Native Subjects Are Loyal —
    246 1 France's Native Subjects Are Loyal Presiden t Lebrun Paris, Nov. 13. A WARiYI testimony to the spirit of the Army and unity of the French colonies was made in a speech today by President Lebrun, who praised the discipline with which the recent partial mobilisation was carried out. He said
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    "A Last Chance"
    52 1 Paris. Nov. 13 THE Press emphasises that M. Reynaud's financial reforms are France's last ehance. The proposals generally are well accepted, although they are attacked by M. Leon Blun and the. Socialists on the ground they will weigh most heavily on those least able to bear the
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    17 1 Cairo. Nov. 13. IT is officially announced that Egypt has recognised the Italian conquest of Abyssinia. Reuter
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    Balkan Generals Assemble
    72 1 Ankara. Nov. 13. A MEETING cf the Chiefs of the General Staffs of the Balkan Entente will be held at Athens on Thursday. Great importance is attached to tne meeting because of recent happenings in Central Europe. It Is pointed out that because of the failure of
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    U.S.-CANADIAN PACT NEXT week
    46 1 U .S.-CANADIAN PACT NEXT week Washington. Nov II THE Secretary ot State. Mr. Cord II Hull, told a press conference that he hoped the United States-Canadian trade agreement would be formally conclud"d next week, but declined to predict when the Anglo-American agreement might be signed. Reuter
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    Tom Mix In Scotland
    47 2 TOM MIX, the famous cowboy star of the stage and films, i> now appertr tfig at the Empire Theatre, Edinburgh, and has visited the Scottish National Shrine to render homage to those who fell in the Great War With him is his wife.
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    Tide Of War In Spain
    153 2 END IN SIGHT Saragessa, Nov. I*. It is claimed the Repuiican attacks en the Valencia front in the past week Jiave achieved nothing at the cost of the Republicans' 7,000 casualties and 1.000 prisoners lost. Nationalist optimism is increasing and it is thought a shortage
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    Canton Nearly Surrounded By Chinese
    314 2 WEATHER HELPS Defenders Take Advantage Of Heavy Rain Hong Kong, Nov. 13. CANTON' has been virtually surrounded by Chinese forces, which are steadily converging on the city from three sides. Taking advantage of the continuous rain in North Kwangtung which makes it extremely difficult for
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    Snails Worry Administrators
    147 2 Geneva, Nov. 13 TV/E galloping snails of Togoland are causing the Brit sh mandatory authorities as much MTFy as Germany's colonial ambitions. Captain C. C. Lilley. British District Commissioner for the Gold Coast, startled the League Mandates Commission nith this revelation rchen the report en the administration
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    Britain To Recognise Ethiopian Conq uest
    294 2 Britain To Recognise Eth iopian Conq uest THE British and Italian Governments, it is understood lin London, have already arranged that the AngloItalian Agreement shall come into force on Nov. 15. Before that date the British Ambassador in Rome, the Earl of Perth, will be given new letters accrediting him
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    Condemnation Of Reich Methods
    241 2 LONDON COMMENT London, Nov. 13. JEWS everywhere were left in terror and without hope for their future in Germany, declared the Sunday Times today commenting on the German reprisals. The journal acids: "This is a backslide towards war. "It is difficult to find parallel in many
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    PASSENGERS BY AIR
    79 2 aiVSJ^T.*" *> Mr Milter, Mr. van Brink. Mr. Pokker, Mr. K. teeyner and Mrs. Bom. Left for Medan, ImU» *ad Kmrot* i.v m Mr K Beyner, Mrs. Bern and Mr H (Medan); Mr. Van Brink (Banekok) and Mr. Fokfcer (Amsterdam). Airlvc4 fraai Europe. Into* mmm Me4an by
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    20,000 PEASANTS FOR LIBYA
    156 2 Colonists For Italy m7 New Farms Komc. Nov. 6. pROM the briage of a cruiser Signer Mussolini reviewed the 20,000 peasant colonists who are on their way to take over the new farms prepared tor them in Libya. The review took place off Gueta. 40 miles
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    Penang's Part In Empire defence
    103 2 A BOUT m •OClttH. V':...in|^7 B. and O i- H RNMI Bl H .man tb «> H 1 1 a1 Oree after mrhk± v I the Kei propose ix., Mr I H son;.; her v: :!frtu, Organist Mackll and V- the work rep: H Er:
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    Pope Oppose Racial Law's
    56 2 Pope Oppose Racial Law's rE oflK ial Onmr* upon Itah tcntlon 10 f. riages t> """J^li rac r at u races cognition marriages in 1 Article M In order v ?*i t&i *»"5 we are djsirit.i- blein. set /m»** we will I occasion In Vatican Pope will Italian Ooversw;-, t
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    STRANGE MALAYAN ANIMALS PUZZLE WORLD'S ZOOS
    364 3 film-Maker's Story Of Sakai Superstitions I Manila, P. I. Nov. U. ED Clifford M. Pressnall, who admits r M, but knows a funny-looking animal one h on his way to the San Diego Zoouj gocictj with eight of the strangest beasts Manila r J**'
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    Siamese King In Singapore
    105 3 ABOVE: MOTOR-CYCLE POLICE ESCORTING KING ANANDA just before he entered the Naval Base on Saturday. He r;aw the huge graving dock and watched men at work in the giant workshops. Below: On the jetty at the Singapore Airport just before the Boy King made his first
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    SOLDIER KILLED IN BATTLE WITH ARABS
    71 3 Jerusalem. Nov. 10. A BRITISH soldier was killed and two others seriously wounded In a battle in which the notorious gam; leader. Amoura. took part. Eighteen armed Arabs were killed. The nghtins cr-urred at the filiate ot Irtah near Tulkarem. Troops surrounded the village
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    Heavy Fine For Old Woman
    228 3 Heavy Fine For Old Woman AS a sequel to a raid carried out by Excise officers on a house in Weld .Quay in the early hours of the morning of Nov. 2 last, two Chinese, a young man and an old woman, were produced before Mr. C. W. Lyle in
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    LOUD-SPEAKER NUISANCE TO BE CONSIDERED
    72 3 LOUD-SPEAKER NUISANCE TO BE CONSIDERED A MEETING of the Kinta Sanitary Board, to be held at the Town Hall. Ipoh. en Thursday, will consider the by-law relating to the prevention and abatement cf nuisances caused by gramophone and wireless loud-speak-ers. Among other matters for discussion are the minutes of the
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    News In Brief
    255 3 A TOTAL of about $19,000. com- pared with $26,000 last year, is expected to be raised by the Poppy Day appeal in Singapore this year. Poppies .sold on Thursday realised $7,000, while $4,000 was made from the sale of wreaths and a similar sum from car labels.
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    Better Period Ahead For Local Markets?
    443 3 IT IS DOUBTFUL whether the local share market and commodity markets have ever experienced a duller period than the mon h under review, write Messrs. Kennedy and Co.. in their monthly Penang share report. A combination of circumstances both political and financial have resulted
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    Fliers' Farewell To Resident
    123 3 MEMBERS of the Perak Flying Club bade farewell to the Hon. G. E. Cator. C.M.G.. British Resident, Perak, when they entertained him at a dinner party at the Ipoh Club in view of his impending departure for home on retirement. Mr. J. D. Meade presided at
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    Time Not Ripe For Malayan University.?
    462 3 (From Our Own Correspondent) TiTii* »r j A,or Star > Nov l? >- JHE Kedah Chinese Chamber of Commerce, on hehair of the Chinese community of Kedah, in a memorandum to the Higher Education Commission point out that higher education is desirable but that,
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      344 3 Stomach Sufferers Mvetjg, deceived I The wonderful curative properties of Maclean Brand Stomach Powder in all kinds of stomach trouble have been proved by hundreds of thousands of grateful sufferers. Often they have told their friends how they have been healed by this famous remedy, talking of it as "Maclean
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    Assistance For Chinese Guerilla Forces
    218 4 IMPROVED ORGANISATION Thirty Battalions At Present In Operation Shanghai, Nov. 8. r SURVEY the lost territories, the Military Affairs Commission has sent a number of special representatives to the occupied areas both in North and Central China to investigate the strength of the guerilla forces
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    The Queen and Gracie Fields
    48 4 The Queen and Gracie Fields GRACIE FIELDS GAVE HE* LOWEST sm.l n when she saag for more than an hour at u, r n„, Al MWr the Grade Fields Tribute Performance, »huta M Queen Mary. Here is Queen Mai? brine rrw^d *^J I Goschen at her arrival lm
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    Made First De Dion Bouton Car
    269 4 FRENCH ENGINEER IS DEAD London. Nov. 6. 11TAY back in 1865. in a tiny work- shop in Paris, a humble mechtnk named Georges Bouton, tinkered with model steam engines and ingertf- i ous mechanical toys. One of liis models was seen by a wealthy
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    CHINA TO BUILD NEW RAILWAY
    150 4 Kunming-Burma Line Skeagfaai. N*v. g. IN VIEW of the strategic change in the Sino- Japanese conflict, the Chinese Government is seeking permission to use the railway construction credits granted by Britain last year tor building a new line linking Kwelchow and Kunming with the Burma
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    Murderer Assists Science
    88 4 Salt Lake City. Hot. S. John DEERING. who was eaecsted hy a firing squad today for murder, co-operated with a scientist anxious to discover how long a man lives after a bullet pitTres his heart, by agreeing to an arranrement by which wires leading to an instrument
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    U.S. TO OUT JAPANESE SILK U
    70 4 U.S. TO OUT JAPANESE SILK U $10,000,000 New Plant JHE cpianesc Corporate is*,! that it i.s buildlr.4 .l/,Kt'il .plant to pi .<. I y^ar ah. I j eliminate Japanese silk tapsigl hosiery in Qm American nafet I The Liu V>: .-tereyu u.. I ing a $7 .000 000 U£ plant
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    Market "highs" after U.S. ELECTIONS
    581 5 Market "highs" after U.S. ELECTIONS ijtcourti&ng Sign* For Fourth Quarter in week prices in Wall Street carried uLi\ to new high levels for the current movement, 1 r ",in volume, and on Saturday the market closed 1 n ,r lifelT, state S. E. Levy and Co. in their weekly 2lU
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    Air Thrills At Capitol
    121 5 At The Cinema Dedicated to :he flying pioneers who have blazed the commercial air trails across the great trade routes. R.K.O's picture. 'Sky Giant" which opened at the Capitol Theatre yesterday is fliie entertainment. Starring Richard Dix, Chester Morris, and Jean Fontaine, this picture deals with
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 1938. Tin Outlook
    598 6 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 1938. Tin Outlook MALAYAN tin producers are much more optimistic regarding the future prospects for the metal than they have been in the past nine or ten months. Although some are inclined to attribute the higher price now quoted for the metal to
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    A Chinese Sage Who Started Life As A Beggar Boy
    1293 6 A Chinese Sage Who Started Life As A Beggar Boy Wuu Shiunn's Centenary m IN the Winter of 1838 a sage was born in Shantung, the native province of Confucius. His name was known as Wuu Shiunn. Wuu was his surname, and Shiunn, the Pedagogue, was an honorary name given
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    GREAT WELCOME PLANNED FOR SIAM'S KING
    746 7 GREAT WELCOME PLANNED FOR SIAM'S KING Ancient And Modern Greeting Ceremonies EXCITING DAY AT SINGAPORE I A MAGNIFICENT welcome is being planned at Bangkok for the 13-year-old King Ananda Mahidol of Siam when he arrives there early this week after an absence in Switzerland of six years. He passed through
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    Visits Of Four Siamese Kings
    301 7 [k[ ING ANANDA MAH IDOL, who pacsed through Singapore on Saturday on his way back to Siam, is the fourth Siamese kinq to have visited Singapore. The three previous kings— ex-King Prajadhipok, now living in England his brother the later King Rama VI and their
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    Servants Listen While Burglars Work
    188 7 Servants Listen While Burglars Work <From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 13. IF the servants of Mr. D. H. Dillow. Assistant Secretary of the Transport Board, had been more enterprising, perhaps the gang of burglars who have been ransacking various European houses in Kuala Lumpur recently might have been
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    How "Moonshiners" Try To Evade The Law
    616 7 ILLICIT DISTILLING A COMMON OFFENCE (Front Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 13. ILLICIT distilling offences are among the commonest figuring in the charge books of police courts throughout this country. In spite of deterrent sentences there does not seem io be a
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    Scottish Airs, Coward's Tunes, At Band Concert
    272 7 Scottish Airs, Coward's Tunes At Band Concert CINE selections of Scottish airs, dancing by pipers from the 2nd Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders, and a "cavalcade" of Noel Coward's popular songs, played by the band of the 2nd Battalion, The Loyal Regiment, delighted a packed Victoria Memorial Hall on Saturday ni^ht,
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    Ramakrishna Mission For Penang
    207 7 Ramakrishna Mission For Penang AT a public meeting of Indiana and Ceylonese held at the Town Hall. Penang, It was unanimously decided that a branch centre of Ramakrlshna Mission be established in Penang, to start not later than Jan. 1, 1939, and that Swami Bha.* war a nan da of
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    AIR RAID PROTECTION FOR CIVILIaANS '
    779 8 AIR RAID PROTECTION FOR CIVILIaANS Every Family Should Play A Part Sir. Are we to see a recurrence of what had happened in 1914, with Germany greedily scheming to dominate Europe, resulting hi the Great War which lasted for four years. Four horrible years of merciless slaughter— destroying millions of
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    Association Of Jews For Singapore?
    80 8 Association Of Jews For Singapore? (To the Editor of the Free Press) Sir,— l am in agreement with the letter of "Zionist Blood" appearing in the Straits Times of the 9th instant that it is impossible to raise locally such a large sum as $100,000 to aid Jewish refugees. In
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    Republicans' Heavy Losses
    101 8 Republicans Heavy Losses Salamanca, Nov. 10. FOURTEEN Republican planes were shot down in an air battle over the Segre front, according to a Nationalist communique, and probably five other Republican planes. Republican losses in the coastal sector of the Levant front in the past three days are estimated at more
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    Snow White's Cottage
    88 8 A MODEL OF THE SEVEN DWAErs* COTTAGE from the film "Snow White." built to scale and "occupied" by Snow White and the dwarfs, has been placed on view, for the benefit of children, at Messrs. Little's, Singapore. The house, pictured above with models of "Snow White" and
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    Should Armistice Holiday Be Abolished?
    111 8 Should Armistice Holiday Be Abolished? (To the Editor of the Free Press) Sir. Is it not time that the Armistice Day holiday was abolished again? It is not observed in other parts of the world, so why should it be confined to Singapore? If the occasion were kept as a
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      454 9 ■'lliu^L iv p^Oand BRITISH IMDIAI_IHES f P )PATIP m BNCfIUMDi p&O.S. No CO f S SAILINGS, OUTWAROS DM UN jonnage S'per*. Tonnage S'pore. ISS9. 154)00 MM SOUDAK 6.000 Jan. 13 CWO Nov 19 RANCHI 17.0W Jan. 13 1 B Si IS.OOO Dec. 2 RANPURA 17.000 Jan. 27 15^0° r)ec 16
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      476 9 (Incorporated in Straits Settlements.) 4^s|^^SJr ELLERMAN BUCKNALL SS. Co., Ltd, (incorporated in England I HAVRE LONDON ROTTERDAM HAMBURG VIA PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL Steamer j^^ Sai i s CITY OF DUNDEE Calls Glasgow Nov. 29 Dec 2 CITY OF NEWCASTLE Dec. 30 Jan. 2 CITY OF MANDALAY Jan. 30 F*b.
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    1019 11 fraser And Co.'s List •«fl RP% MINING Buyers Sellers <L> 28S 30SD m C M 43s 47s aom pi* 25s 3d 26s 9d c.d. .624 .67*a 1.424 1.47', ,4, |0| 6d Us 6d I^Vatov 23s 13s «d 14. 6d CIS) 33 .38 83 5-BncS.) 7s
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    101 11 Lm Supplied By Messrs Fraser Co. C SATURDAY, NOV. It, 1938: 1 PJtf. ■t%_2_ Dividend Book* Date Bx. Div. veax m 21 ii Close Payable Date to <*** 5? mm if tax Nov Nov. 24 Nov. 27 *2L t in- S 11 1 Nov Nov. 25 Nov.
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    Upsets General^iTLast Day Of S.TX. Winter Meeting
    1284 11 Upsets General^iTLast Day Of S.TX. Winter Meeting PHE Singapore Turf Club's Winter meeting was hrnuavit t« «i~ Saturday The going was wrefhed. KLSTS^JtthS*? Those horses who were left in the r: a were virtually MfauLt «l,J' nud and slush from the hoofs of St* leaders y he wSr" thC rder
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    THE COMMODITY MARKETS
    171 11 From London 130 p.m. Saturday RUBBER: Quiet. London: B%d. 8 7 16d. Previously 8 5 I6d 7 lfid Jan.-March: 8 7 16d S'^d. PrevSy I r™' i,d April-Ju^e: BV*d. 8 916d. Previously: fii^d. IWlfd J-S"s2t B^ d 8%d Previously: 8 9 16d B^d New York: Previously <Openin
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    THE METAL MARKETS
    59 11 From London: Latest Quotations TIN: (Previous tone> Firmer. Spot: closed. Previously: £215 ss. Three months: closed. Previously: £215 17s. fid NEW YORK TIN; Previously 46.65. COPPER: Settlement. Previously: £46 15s. GOLD: Yesterday: £7 6s. 9d\ Previously: £7 6s. 7 1 ->d SILVER: Spot: 19%d. Previously: 19 516d.
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    Foreign Exchange Rates
    59 11 London Closing Quotations Method of Parity before Latest Centre Quoting 20-0-31 Rate Previously Paris Ftanc to 121.1 178% 178% New York... 8 to 4JB 4.73% 4.74 Amsterdam. Guilders to 8.96% 8.74 8.73VHong Kong Per dollar is. 215 lOd. is. 2 Is<lBd Shanghai... Jar dollar B!4d. nom. 8?«d.
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    19 12 picture lIOH SABAH caused a surprise hen he won the second race on Saturday and paid $42.- Free Press
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    ARSENAL LED BY TWO GOALS, THEN SLIPPED
    262 12 ARSENAL LED BY TWO GOALS, THEN SLIPPED London, Nov. 18. A RSENaL had a two goal lead ever Liverpool but could not hold their :d vantage. Nieuwcnhuys scored both loaLs for Liverpool and Drake and Kirchen sccred for Arsenal. Arsenal led 2—l at the interval. Charlton's defence against Everton's r
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    SAPPERS' HOCKEY VICTORY
    42 12 Changi sappers beat S.C.C. s—o5 0 in a nockey match at Changi yesterday. Play was one sided, the Sappers scoring three times in the first half and twice in the second. Scorers were Plummer (2), Wright <2> and Templeman.
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    DERBY AND EVERTON HAVE FURTHER REVERSES
    1588 12 Arsenal Draw With Liverpool LEEDS IN THIRD PLACE London, Nov. 12. DEFEAT of both Derby and Everton in the first division of the English League saw the margin of pointc between leaders and the remainder of the teams reduced, and saw Leeds climb into
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    Mr. A. Loke Heads 6jd Winning List
    418 12 Mr. A. Loke Heads 6jd Winning List VAN BREUKELEN IS LEADINr TRAINER, MAYO BEST JOqJ FOLLOWING is the full list of trainers ;lnd advertised stake money won by leading own V*** pore Turf Club-s Winter meeting The Mak. 1 added money:- <"* I OWNERS Mr. Alan Loke $4 12i1 "O^ntong
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    Asiatics' XV To Play Negri Sembilan
    91 12 Asiatics' XV To Play Negri Sembilan THK Asiatics XV to play Negri--1 Sembilan All Blues next Saturday is: Chang Min Kee (Raffle* College). K. Leembruggen (St. Andrew's Old Boys). J. Kit. hie (5.A.0.8.). Eng Hood Khan (R.C.). Ross (5.A.0.8.); Cheong Weng Choon (R.C.). S Ross (5.A.0.8.); W. Moss (S.A O.B.).
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    TIE IN ARNOLD ROBINSON CUP CONTEST
    418 12 TIE IN ARNOLD ROBINSON CUP CONTEST The Singapore Gclf Club's Sir Arnold Robinson Cup competition played at j Bukit Timah yesterday morning r^sultied in a tie between T. W. Doyle and !e. M. Moffat t and C. Donald and A. iChettle with a net score of 69' FclI lowing are
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    TAIPING SKYE MEETING
    52 12 The Taiping Turf Club will hold a Skye meeting on Friday and Saturdav, Dec. 16 and 17. There will be two runs lor horses class 4. two for horses class 5, two for ponies class 2 and two for ponies class 3. Entries close on Friday, Dec.
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    JOHORE BADMINTON TOURNAMENT
    93 12 THE all-Johore Malays badminton championship tournament will be held in Johore Bahru during the Christmas holidays, under the auspices of the Malay Badminton Association. Johore Bahru. Closing date for entries Is Nov. 30. and the entrance fee $1 I pSiyer for each event. Events are. Open men's
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    17 12 picture. FLYING STAR won the fourth race on Saturday by four lengths to ray $58.- Free Press
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    PERAK ASIATICS WIN 24-0
    69 12 <From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh. Nov. I Perak Asiatics qualified for the final of the All Blues rugger competition when they defeated the Selangor Asiatics today by 24 points (three goals and three tries* to nil. Per&k showed all round superiority and led 8 nil at
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    ASIATICS BEAT R-A.F. 9.5
    110 12 Two Tri To E^ Team ■|N their nateh E it it* l*** «Vm •*< •O six (two 1 ">-• Th e A.siatl mid i« no furl pUy threat* up riMtiS whin tht- a,.., i game kick* ro touch c M .ell AlmM.t fa ;r ifttum Asiatics
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    48 12 COrt W\ th 0 TanKl. ..xM comnetition yesterday, H 'dQuaM beat B RaffcMDt M > WW Km* equally »n th,- Heaten getting Good lllefcn rk Ml display* the H'Mdquar Perks. ntilMl l I Bell, hrtprt Kcatlnx and V BOHWI for thf VfeMMfl »<-rf Amer. V:< B'tV H«md
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